We love a good church conversion on Desire to Inspire so when I was real estate stalking in Adelaide in South Australia I all but shouted hallelujah when I came across this 1889 bluestone church given just a little contemporary makeover. Love it! Especially the "kitchen sign" and the supersized Tretchikoff. Link here while it lasts.

This is one of the better church conversions I've seen; I really like the pop art vibe. Don't you just love how someone went to that extra effort to place the cushions on their pointy ends? I wonder if it was the owner or the real estate agent? x

OH WOW, I drive past this place on my way to work everyday and have always wondered what it was like inside! Now I know!!! The bright red door always catches my attention as I drive past. I live just up the road (and around the corner). Didn't realise it had come on the market for sale, but did notice the owners have been very busy working away on it the past few weekends! Thanks for showing.

Actually I find this place very sad. Church conversions work best when the new interiors capture a sense of grandeur and higher thought: not necessarily in a religious sense, but merely an appreciation of the great and the transcendant.

In this case, however, a building devoted to the most solemn, profound and devoted precepts of the people who built it is now a repository of the loud, the shallow, the kitschy and the disposable. I'm a big fan of loud, shallow, kitschy and disposable, but not in this context. The architecture underlines the ephemeral worthlessness of the interiors.